Welcome of the School of Theology and Philosophy! Theology, Philosophy, and Catechetics—the three programs in our School–are strong and vibrant academic programs with excellent teachers and scholars.
Theology and Philosophy have played a special, unitive role in the centuries’ long Catholic understanding of education. Philosophical study offers the most expansive, most inclusive, and most coherent view of all reality, created and uncreated, that the human mind is capable of without the help of revelation. By faith, theology deepens this vision and sees all things (and all disciplines) in the light of the Blessed Trinity.
As St. Bonaventure says, “This is the fruit of all sciences, that in all faith may be strengthened, God may be honored, character may be formed, and consolation may be derived from the union of the [divine] Spouse with the beloved, a union which takes place through charity” (On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology, 26). Without Philosophy, there is no ultimate knowledge of ultimate things; without theology, there is not trinitarian charity, “without which,” for Bonaventure, “all knowledge is vain.” And we can add, without Catechetics there is no art of making disciples aflame with this charity.
